10 Questions
What is the average number of times the human heart beats per day?
100,000
What was Alan Turing's field of study?
Mathematics
What were some of the areas that Turing contributed to?
Computer science and artificial intelligence
Which of the following is NOT true about the heart?
It is the largest muscle in the body.
Where did Turing study mathematics?
University of Cambridge
What is the function of arteries, arterioles, and capillaries?
To carry blood from the heart to the body
What was the title of Turing's seminal paper?
"On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem [Decision Problem]"
What did Turing show about formal systems of arithmetic?
They have no effective decision method
What is the universal Turing machine?
An abstract computing machine that encapsulates the fundamental logical principles of the digital computer
What was Turing's claim, now known as the Church-Turing thesis?
Everything humanly computable can also be computed by the universal Turing machine
Study Notes
- The human heart beats about 100,000 times per day.
- It pumps 2,000 gallons of blood through the body daily.
- The heart does more physical work than any other muscle over a lifetime.
- The heart is located in the middle of the chest, between the lungs.
- It pumps blood through the cardiovascular system.
- Blood delivers oxygen and nutrients to every cell and removes waste products.
- Arteries, arterioles, and capillaries carry blood from the heart to the body.
- Venules and veins return blood to the heart.
- The heart is no bigger than a large fist and weighs 8 to 12 ounces.
- These facts were updated on January 31, 2020.
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